No active transaction

[areian]

Hi.

I'm trying to deploy an EJB/SessionBean package to my JBoss server, but for some reason it gives me a TransactionRequiredException, with the message that it didn't find any active transactions.
I was under the impression that in a container managed environment like JBoss, the container would automatically create a new transaction for me, if it doesn't have any at hand.
I have probably missed something, either in my server configuration or my code, but after 3 hours of searching the web I'm no closer to a solution.
Any pointers as to what I might be missing would be greatly appreciated.
If you need to see any of the config data or source snippets, let me know.

[peterj]

EJB 2.x or 3.0?

What transaction attribute are you using? Hopefully not "mandatory".

[areian]

It's EJB 3.0, and I'm using whichever is the default transaction attribute (Do you have to specify the attribute explicitly?)

Also, I don't know if there is any point in mentioning it, but it is running on an OS X box.

[peterj]

The default transaction attribute is "required", which will create a new transaction if there is not one.

Could you post the full exception stack trace? Also, post the source code for the EJB that is showing this problem.

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[areian]

Hey again.
I Found a solution: It works if I manually inject an EntityManager using the EntityManagerFactory. I was just under the impression that it was supposed to do that automatically in a container mannaged environment.

The revised code for the session bean follows:

package sm.comm.frontend2.beans.sessions;

import javax.ejb.Stateless;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceUnit;
import sm.beans.entities.Employee;
import sm.comm.frontend2.dtos.assemblers.EmployeeAssembler;
import sm.comm.frontend2.dtos.assemblers.SkillAssembler;
import sm.comm.frontend2.dtos.DetailEmployeeDTO;
import sm.comm.frontend2.dtos.SkillDTO;

@Stateless
public class F2FacadeBean implements F2FacadeRemote {
 @PersistenceUnit
 private EntityManagerFactory em;

 public DetailEmployeeDTO EmployeeDTO(int id) {
 Employee emp = em.createEntityManager().find(Employee.class, id);
 return EmployeeAssembler.createDetailEmployeeDTO(emp);
 }

 public void persistSkill(SkillDTO skill) {
 System.out.println(skill.getName());
 System.out.println(em.createEntityManager().isOpen());
 em.createEntityManager().persist(SkillAssembler.createSkill(skill));
 }

 public String hello() {
 return "Hello World!";
 }

}

It contains some debugging code, but the idea should be clear.

I just got brain wave. Am I right in thinking that if I want to directly inject the EntityManager I should use @PersistenceContext, and if I use @PersistenceUnit I need to use the factory?


Thanks a lot for the time taken to help out with this

[peterj]

I always use:

@PersistenceContext
private EntityManager em;

Then I do not have to call createEntityManager() within my code{

public void saveIt(SomeEntity se) {
 em.persist(se);
}

[rszulgo]

Why not mandatory ? Are there some issues related to this transaction type?